Talking Horse Investigates Missing Boy Case
A 27-year-old talking horse Lady Wonder was asked to help locate Gary Hayman, a nine-year-old missing from Exeter State School near Providence. The Richmond Times-Dispatch interviewed Lady who tapped her answers via a typewriter lever system.
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Richmond
Rhode Island
Gary Hayman
Exeter State School
Providence
R. I
Benjamin Hayman
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Rhodes Island
Lady Wonder
The
Times-Dispatch
Bill McKilwain
Lady
McIlwain
Gary
Kansas
Massachusetts
Dist
Edmund R. Dewing
Danny Matson
Quincy
Mass
Dewing
Matson
Pittsfield
Fielde-Wilde Water
Fielde-Wilde
Claudia Fonda
Duke University
Area Watchers Alarmed As Pearl Harbor Remembrance Looms
Monroe and surrounding posts report ongoing volunteer shortages for Operation Skywatch on Pearl Harbor Day. J B Scherer notes about 12 vacancies, whileClarno and Monroe posts run at around 75 percent capacity with need for more volunteers and relief watchers. President Truman urges expanded Air Watch efforts as Gen LeMay cites a test bomber mission to stress vigilance against atomic-age threats.
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Monroe
Round Grove School
Pearl Harbor
Air Force
J. B. Scherer
Round Grove
Harry Ammann
Clarno
Sam Rubi
Monroe Electrical
Fred Wuetrich
South Wayne
New Glarus
Albany
Truman
Air Watch
Curtis E. le May
Strategic Air Command
Scout Drive workers report $828 toward fund total
A total of $828 was tabulated at the Commercial and Savings Bank this noon from Boy Scout fund canvass workers. The drive opened last Wednesday and closes Wednesday with a 2430 dollar local quota.
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Commercial and Savings Bank
Boy Scout Fund
Billfold with 1508 Dollars Floats Away at Sea
A Virginia trucker from Roanoke lost his billfold containing 1508 dollars while swimming near St Simons Island in the Atlantic. His family stayed on the beach all night hoping for a return as a Coast Guard boat searched in vain and only 14 cents remained in his pocket. He offered a reward to any finder.
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ST. Simons
Island
Virginia Produce
Roanoke
Conner
Coast Guard
Coasting Areas Planned in City
The Board of Public Works voted to close six city streets to traffic from 4 to 9 p.m. daily for coasting. City crews will shovel sidewalks and bill property owners if walks are not cleared within 24 hours. William Rees won the snow removal contract. bids from T. O. Stauffacher and H. D. Goecks were also $4 per hour but on smaller tracts. Streets affected include 12th Ave 15th St to IC spur, 15th Ave 21st to 23rd, 15th Ave 7th to 9th, 20th Ave 5th to 6th, 17th St west of 23rd Ave Recreation Park, and 9th Ave 9th to 10th.
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Board of Public Works
William Rees
T. O. Stauffacher
H. D. Goecks
Rees
12Th Avenue
15Th Street
Illinois Central
15Th Avenue
20Th Avenue
17Th Street
23Rd Avenue
Recreation Park
9Th Avenue
9Th
10Th
Mrs Wallace's Rites Held at Independence
INDEPENDENCE Mo The funeral mass for Mrs David W Wallace 90 mother of the first lady was held at the little White House residence where President Truman and his wife and daughter Margaret attended in seclusion after arriving from Washington The Trumans stayed with the Wallace family at the Independence home.
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Independence
White House
David W. Wallace
Truman
Margaret
124 Korean War casualties identified by Defense Department
Washington report lists 124 additional Korean War deaths and injuries identified by the Defense Department. Among the total, 16 are listed as wounded in action, with other casualty details recorded in List 707.
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Washington
Defense Department
Weekend Series Of State Mishaps Claims Lives of 18
A weekend in Wisconsin left 18 dead in multiple accidents across the state. The tally includes a Milwaukee family of four lost in a highway crash, a Navy pilot in a plane crash near Racine, and several ice related fatalities on area rivers and crossing incidents.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Dorothy Hamburg
Herbert
Steven
John
Highway 12
Wisconsin Dells
Robert C. Letkey
LaCrosse
Baraboo
Five Officers Die In Rapid City Air Base Fire
Five Air Force officers were killed when a fire swept two story barracks at Rapid City Air Force Base. Six others were burned. 2nd Lt. John Rycroft of Yonkers New York broke an ankle leaping from a second story window. Rycroft and 2nd Lt. Paul W. Rous of Lockbourne Air Force Base Ohio were flown to Fitzsimmons hospital in Denver for treatment. Rapid City houses B 36 intercontinental bombers and the victims were with the 72nd Strategic Reconnaissance Wing.
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Rapid City
Air Force
Rapid City Air Force Base
John Rycroft
Yonkers
N. Y
Aée
Paul W. Rous
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Ohio
Denver
Fitzsimmons Military Hospital
72Nd Strategic Reconnaissance Wing
Iowa coach disciplined by Big Ten for contact with star recruit
The Big Ten disciplined Frank Bucky O'Connor head basketball coach at Iowa for contacting a star Illinois prep player amid recruiting concerns. The sanction stems from alleged inappropriate outreach during the impending Marchment period at a time when recruiting rules apply.
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Iowa City
Big Ten
Frank
Bucky) O’connor
Iowa
Illinois
Conont
Eisenhower Opens Pacific Conference After Wake Island Arrival
President elect Dwight Eisenhower began formal talks aboard the USS Helena two hours after arrival from Wake Island. Korea was the presumed main topic with no definite decisions announced, as Hagerty outlined that plans would wait until after inauguration.
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Maj
John Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Ike
Korea
Don Whitehead
Uss
Helena
Hawaii
Wake Island
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Pearl Harbor
Herbert Brownell
Wilton B. Persons
White House
Hagerty
Dulles
Humphrey
Convicts End 20Hour Uprising at New Mexico Prison
Eight hostages freed unharmed as rioting prisoners yield control of the New Mexico State Prison after a 20 hour uprising. Warden Morris Abram announced the end of the siege as guards and state police prepared to storm. Fred Johnson hugged his son at the gate after release.
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Santa FE
Morris Abram
New Mexico State Prison
Fred Johnson
Big Stone
Johnson
Abram
Los Alamos
Joe Roach
Michigan Board Rejects Senate Recount Assistance
The Michigan Board of Canvas rejected a request from a U S Senate election subcommittee to help investigate the Potter Moody senatorial race or delay the gubernatorial recount. The board said it would not tally senatorial ballots with gubernatorial ballots, rejecting the notion of an investigation recount.
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Associated Press
Michigan Board of Canvassers Today
U. S. Senate Election Subcommittee
Potter-Moody
Senate
State
State Board
Dense Fog Lifts Across London County Delays Clear
Dense fog hung over London County this morning reducing visibility to less than a block and halting Thames traffic and Channel port departures. By afternoon, the mist lifted to several blocks, with green county fog noted as milder. Temperatures near 46 and melting snow left slick roads. colder air expected tonight and tomorrow.
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Green County
Efigton
London
Thames River
Channel
Mercury
All Engines Fail Liner Lands Safely in Nevada
Forty four aboard a Trans World Airways Super-Constellation survived a near crash when two of four engines failed over Eastern Nevada. Pilot Irvin Kravitz executed an emergency landing at Fallon, the aircraft skidding on two wheels after brakes burned out and the right gear collapsed. passengers and crew remained unharmed.
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Fallon
Nev
Chicago
San Francisco
Transworld Airways
Irvin Kravitz
Kravitz
Associated Press
Nevada
Putnam Takes Charge as Wage Stabilization Path Clears
Washington economist Roger Putnam assumed control of the stalled wage stabilization program aiming to hand control to the Eisenhower administration even if he must run it himself. He faced a missing wage board and protests from industry members over political handling of the coal wage issue. AFL President George Meany warned unions may strike if the WSB collapses and urged blanket approval of pending wage settlements.
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Washington
Roger Putnam
Eisenhower
Putnam
Boston
Chicago
Defense
Henry Fowler
AFL
George Meany
WSB
Meany
Truman
U N Planes Bomb Red Supply Units
Allied air forces pressed offensives over North Korea with hundreds of planes striking front lines and rear areas. The U S Fifth Air Force claimed a MiG-15 kill over Sinuiju and seven Reds shot down in a day, while B 26 bombers hit supply trucks and bridges in the pre dawn and daylight raids amid a cold week.
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Seoul
North Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Sinuiju
U. S. Eighth Army
Sniper
Congress Committee To Hear Kin Notification Plan
The Evening Times proposed a personal notification system for war casualty deaths, to be presented to the House Armed Services Committee by Rep. Lawrence H. Smith. Defense officials rejected the plan, citing staffing limits and funding needs for timely personal notices.
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Congress
Evening Times
House Committee On Armed Services
Lawrence H. Smith
Defense Department
Rep. Smith
House
House Committee On Armed Forces
Dewey Short
Missouri
William C. Foster
Defense
Foster
Department
Armed Services
Nixon Confident of Taft Backing for Eisenhower Admin
Vice President elect Nixon voiced confidence that Senator Taft will work smoothly with the incoming Eisenhower administration. He called Taft a team player and said there is no doubt he will fit with the new cabinet. Nixon spoke after arriving at National Airport following a Mexico City trip where he represented Eisenhower at Cortines inauguration ceremonies.
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Washington
Nixon
Sen
Taft
Eisenhower
National
Mexico City
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Martin P. Durkin
AFL Plumbers Union
Durkin
Nhower
Notable Cheese Industry Figure Ernest Schneider Dies in Seattle
Ernest Schneider 52 a prominent figure in the U.S. and Argentina cheese trades died of a stroke at his Seattle home. A former Green County resident and UW dairy alum, he worked with Consolidated Dairy Products Co and Kraft Foods in Argentina. He married Nellie Koenig in 1928 and leaves daughter Betty Jean.
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Ernest Schneider
U.S
Argentina
Green County
Seattle
Wash
Schneider
Consolidated Dairy Products Co
Nellie Koenig
Monroe
Brodhead Cheese and Cold Storage Co
Dairy Department
Switzerland
Milwaukee
Spring Valley
Pierce County
UW Dairy School
University Club
Berne
Asher Hobson
Institute of Agriculture
Rome
University of Wisconsin
Sigma Taua
Iram
Turner Hall
Kneider
Kraft Foods
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Herbert Techmeier
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John Foster Dulles
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